straitjacket
స్ట్రైట్
definition
verb
We have been locked in seclusion, placed in restraints, chemically and physically straitjacketed , lobotomized, shocked and beaten because we protested too much.
restrain with a straitjacket.
noun
And we were taken to be strapped together in an all-in-one straitjacket .
a strong garment with long sleeves that can be tied together to confine the arms of a violent prisoner or mental patient.
example
A quick strong jerk and the 'straitjacket' burst up high into the air.
We must break through the mental 'straitjacket' and realize that another world is possible.
Of course this does not mean that the courts have to put their reasoning into the 'straitjacket' of first construing the statute in the abstract and then looking at the facts.
Sometimes they put me in there without a 'straitjacket' if I'm not too violent.
The author regularly seems less like a journalist interviewing a subject than a therapist who has foolishly removed her patient's 'straitjacket' so they can head off for a jaunt in the jungle.
The political 'straitjacket' of the two-party system that has confined the American working class is objectively finished.
The pupils are hard at work and Blaine will be treated to a display including a lampshade which induces insanity, a multi-coloured 'straitjacket' and a speech by each pupil explaining their work.
After the treatment, we see her standing dazed in a 'straitjacket' , muttering unintelligibly, her hair standing on end, sparks flying from her head.
My dad asked whether this man should merely be removed from office, or whether he should be placed into a 'straitjacket' immediately after.
He was on a gurney, all wrapped up in a 'straitjacket' and his feet were chained together.
This is a crude attempt to 'straitjacket' the working class, to prevent it from adopting an independent class viewpoint.
The empty sleeves are wrapped around the figure and stapled like a 'straitjacket' .
Slipping on a 'straitjacket' of simplistic logic, we come to believe that the disorder must, or at the very least should, be overcome by an application of willpower.
The author is so keen to break out of the 'straitjacket' of conventional narrative that he forgets to include a plot.
I thought of this as the men in white suits put the white 'straitjacket' on me and shepherded me into a white vehicle leading me to a white building with shiny white linoleum floors, white walls and indeed white everywhere.
And we were taken to be strapped together in an all-in-one 'straitjacket' .
Defining public use narrowly would put a 'straitjacket' on governments in devising solutions to difficult social problems.
What you had always done was to entomb your inner personal centre within the constricting 'straitjacket' of certain words and formulae.
It's one of the more panic-inducing screen sequences in memory: In a hospital morgue, a mental patient is trussed in a 'straitjacket' and locked away in the airless dark of a body storage drawer.
There are undoubtedly areas where the government is moving more and more to 'straitjacket' the courts.
Their role is to 'straitjacket' the working class and organize defeats.
the treaty should not be used as a tool to 'straitjacket' international trade
Any form of independent resistance by workers, any attempt to break out of the 'straitjacket' and control of the trade unions, is to be prevented under all circumstances.
He once swam a mile with his hands and feet handcuffed together and did 12 lengths in a 'straitjacket' .
Men have long considered traditional marital roles ‘anemic and constricting,’ according to Real, and no longer being the sole breadwinner is a loosening of the 'straitjacket' .
the government is operating in an economic 'straitjacket'
Mr McNamara, for the defendant, submits that the Framework does not impose a 'straitjacket' but that in any event the matter was approached correctly in terms of the flowchart in Figure 5.
the government is operating in an economic 'straitjacket'
They quarantined the city workers' struggle, confining it within the political 'straitjacket' of collective bargaining and appeals to the big business politicians.
That is a deliberate attempt to 'straitjacket' the winner of Brazil's presidential election, due in October.
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